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by Carson – (Abridged henrymakow.com) Jan 2, 2012

I had always considered myself a socially awkward person for as long as I could remember. While I was fairly gifted academically, my ability to express and handle myself in the presence of others was very poor and for most of my life, I found myself with few and soon no friends at all.

Finding myself increasingly isolated, I began to become increasingly frustrated with others and society in general, and it was not long before I began to become hateful of everything and everyone around me.

I started to pick out the flaws in everyone; all of their faults, all of their shortcomings, everything that was wrong with them. I began to feel that humanity in general was worthless. I hated myself and my own inadequacies the most.

I watched those who had people that cared about them, something that made me so envious, focus their lives on things like partying, drugs, sex, and other empty pursuits and I became incredibly bitter about it.

“These people have what I’ve wanted for so long, and this is how they spend their lives? On this junk?” I thought.

Some time afterward I laid down and thought about what it was that I really wanted. What was it I was really after? Was it just friends? Did I just want to have people to regularly hang out with and entertain ourselves? Was it romance?